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The Tank Job of the Week is an award for the FBS team that did the best job of humiliating itself over the weekend. Whether they blew a large lead, choked away a spot in the limelight, lost a game they had absolutely no right losing, or completely screwed everything on a last second blunder, the TJOTW winner sets the gold standard in college football misery.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 0: New Mexico Lobos (Montana State 35-31)
Week 1: Florida State Seminoles (Boston College 28-13)
Week 2: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Northern Illinois 16-14)
Week 3: Mississippi State Bulldogs (Toledo 41-17)
Week 4: North Carolina Tar Heels (James Madison 70-50)
Week 5: Auburn Tigers (Oklahoma 27-21) [TIE]
Week 5: Ole Miss Rebels (Kentucky 20-17) [TIE]
Week 6: Alabama Crimson Tide (Vanderbilt 40-35)
Week 7: Marshall Thundering Herd (Georgia Southern 24-23)
Week 8: USC Trojans (Maryland 29-28)
LAST WEEK: When you don’t nominate a team and they end up being the runner-up on write-in’s alone, you done screwed up, so my apologies to UCF for ignoring their meltdown against undefeated Iowa State. With that said, its still USC and their meltdown against not-undefeated non-September Maryland, and well-deserved at that. So of course USC rebounds and blows out Rutgers in front of like a thousand people right before the Husky game. I’m beginning to hate this season.
Onto this week, and maybe I can finagle a Pepperidge Farm sponsorship because there are a LOT of turnover-induced nominees this week. Also maybe the most shocking upset of the year so far, at least where the Group of Five is concerned.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- We all saw that, Ohio State. Everyone saw.
- Washington’s Pick Six against Indiana might have been the most horrific pick six I’ve ever witnessed.
- Memphis was a 17 point favorite over Charlotte and needed a touchdown with a minute left to survive Niners comeback.
- Mizzou got a fat goose egg against a Bama team that’s given up 25+ to pretty much everyone else
- Undefeated Navy finally got a chance at the limelight against Notre Dame and is no longer undefeated after being drubbed 51-14.
- Maryland gave up 48 points to Minnesota. Again 48 points. Minnesota. Minnesota.
- Kentucky is stuffed on a fourth and goal for the third straight week and lost to Auburn in the DepresSEC game of the week.
- The “Surely Utah hasn’t deteriorated enough to lose to THESE guys” game has not been a fun one, but I think by losing to Houston they’ve pretty much reached the ending.
- I’m not sure WHY Eastern Michigan was only favored by 3 against a terrible Akron team but Akron won so nice call on that one Vegas.
- I know USA was favored by like 8 points but dammit I wanted to believe in 1-loss ULM and they were up 17-12 at the half before the Jaguars rattled off 34 straight in the second and now sad Warhawk noises.
- LSU led 17-7 at the half but clearly had no idea what to do when A&M changed quarterbacks, brought in Marcel Reed, and outscored the Tigers 31-6 in the second act.
NOTE: For ease of counting, please use carats to make your vote, like this: . Also, you are not required to vote for a nominee- you can write in one of your own if you think of a better choice. Thank you for participating!
BOSTON COLLEGE EAGLES (lost to Louisville 31-27)
You might have been excused for missing this one, because the World Series was going on, and Boston College had a 20-0 lead less than twenty-five minutes into the game, and still led 27-10 halfway through the third quarter. And then they manage just 68 yards over their last six drives as the Ville comes back despite three turnovers to steal this Friday Night Nightmare.
DUKE BLUE DEVILS (lost to SMU 28-27)
I said during the game that whoever lost this game was going to be nominated, because you either lost because you coughed up six turnovers (and a 21-7 lead), or you lost despite getting six takeaways. In this case it’s the latter so come on down Blue Devils, who sealed their fate in overtime when a two point bootleg fell incomplete. Oh, and the Blue Devils had a chance to win in regulation (thanks to turnover #6, of course), but the field goal was blocked. Its just the second time this century a team with a +6 turnover margin has lost (The other was Memphis, to Marshall in 2011, in case you were wondering)
KANSAS JAYHAWKS (lost to Kansas State 29-27)
Honestly if you’ve seen one Kansas loss in 2024, you’ve seen them all so there’s really nothing left to write other than it was the Sunflower Showdown this time and its their sixteenth consecutive loss to the Wildcats.
LIBERTY FLAMES (lost to Kennesaw State 27-24)
Flames kicked off TJOTW nominations extra early on Wednesday when they couldn’t recover an onside kick and gained the honor of becoming Kennesaw State’s first ever FBS win, losing their own 17-game regular season winnings streak in the process. This is the latest into the season a winless team toppled an undefeated one since Temple did it to Virginia Tech (?!) in 1998.
MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS (lost to Michigan 24-17)
Why can’t you just lose to Michigan like a normal team?
NEW MEXICO LOBOS (lost to Colorado State 17-6)
Lobos had 453 yards of offense in this game, but lost with only six points because of four turnovers, all in Ram territory and one at the goal line. Add in a 40+ yard touchdown pass by CSU and an 85-yard punt return TD, and it all adds up to one massive L for the Lobos.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS HUSKIES (lost to Ball State 25-23)
Alright, buckle up for this one cause it was a RIDE. Down 22-14, NIU scores with less than five minutes left, but a wide open receiver drops the 2-point conversion in the end zone. Ball State recovers the onside, but is forced to punt. NIU tries to pass, the ball is tipped, and the Cardinals pick it off. They try a field goal, but its short. NIU drives down the field, and kicks a field goal of their own with 15 seconds left. Ball State launches downfield, gets into range, and kicks the game winner as time expires. Whew! The Huskies were 14 point favorites, too.
SYRACUSE ORANGE (lost to Pittsburgh 41-13)
How much pick six could Pittsburgh pick if Pittsburgh could pick six? Apparently the answer is three. All in the first half. Leading to a 31-0 halftime lead. All in all the Orange threw five interceptions as they completely detonated any hope they had of staying in the ACC race.
TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS (lost to TCU 35-34)
Honestly, I was kinda surprised the Raiders didn’t get more votes last week for their facebombing to Baylor. Apparently TTU was too, because they decided to outdo themselves by folding a 17 point lead in about a 15 minute span, then, just as they were moving into field goal range, fumbled the ball right back to allow the Frogs to seal the game.
UTSA ROADRUNNERS (lost to Tulsa 36-35)
What the hell happened here?! Favored by ten, the Roadrunners led 35-7 at the half, but obviously if you can gain a lead that big in a half, you can blow a lead that big in a half, and UTSA did just that, starting with a 35-yard scoop and score early in the third quarter and finishing when the Golden Hurricane went 92 yards in just over a minute to pull off the shocker.